Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

A political leader worthy of assassination

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Idealist: a cynic in the making.